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Show By Ray W. Burnett Government can be no better than its citizen involvement. America has confused politicians as leaders. Leadership, or statesmanship accepts what morality requires. Politicians accept, right or wrong, what is exThis is why we have government pedient and today doing the same. November 1980 will be a testing period for all Americans. The test is independence versus dependence in the U.S.A. This nation was built upon ideas of freedom, dignity, and virtue. It is now floundering upon ideas of dependence, mediocrity, and vice. This is the result of a serious enigma growing out of 25 years of fiery liberalism in American government controlled by the Democrats. It has lessened the faith in the principles established by our forebearers who had made America the fervent hope of the world. It may well come to pass that if this great nation falls, the countdown of . Armageddon begins. about politics in There is something very government and labor that continues to reward indiligence with the equality of assiduousness. Equality in opportunity is rightful, but equality in production and recompense is not possible because some people are better workers than others. In government we have treated everyone equal in steps and pay grades instead, until we have stymied intiative in America and bred a new kind of American who wants to be t. This new trend taken care of rather than remain is killing the spirit of individual independance. The new American dependent represents millions of Americans today. When happens when they outnumber and out vote independent Americans? What will America have become when that happens? Had America retained its statesman instead of its politicians, we would not be faced with the present dilemma. Had Americans loved their country more, become more self-servin- g. involved in its politics, and everyone voting, the plight now facing the nation would not have occurred. Our enemies have labored hard to find a way to destroy America and we seem to have supplied the formula. If we kill independence in America, we bring death to the American way of life. What more could we do for the enemy? ' Americas stubborn incredulity about its true self is responsible for the reluctance in resolving its problems, but worse are the politicians who do not possess what it takes to admit they have been wrong and change the nation from what it is into what it ought to be. As for we, the people, it is to admit we have wrong, in our direction, not about government, and our morals. It only becomes when we give up wanting to be Americans, to defend America, and to expect someone or something else to take care of us. Americas principles are as much alive in our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and our Declaration of independence today as they were when written. It is not to admit that we have fallen short in the perand Pure formance of these principles. It is abortion if we abandon these principles that cost our nation so much blood and treasure to establish. By Edwin Feulner Thotigh you are unlikely to know about it if you rely on the network news for all your information, the American West is at war. The invaders are neither men, nor beasts; they are bugs. Millions of them hungry, flying, swarming grasshoppers which are in the process of destroying a possible 32 million acres of western crop and rangeland. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it is the worst plague of grasshoppers in this century. The extent of the problem should raise eyebrows because last year saw a similar plague, billed at the time as the worst in 20 years, and the year before, 1978, saw still another. In each succeeding year despite our modern farm technology and the array of powerful chemical that is available the problem has gotten worse. Why? Because the federal government, in an effort to risk-frecreate a totally pollution-freidyllic society, has the use of chemical restricted so or banned either sharply The bugs are that the war has become winning. The list of pesticides pulled off the market by the Environmental Protection Agency is extensive. But even at that, nobody maintains that the products remaining on the market couldnt do an adequate job, if given a chance. The trouble is, they are not given a chance. The EPA will not permit spraying in many areas that could and should be sprayed; this provides the bugs with verdant breeding grounds, and makes spraying an exercise in frustration. As scientist William Hollis of the National Agricultural Chemicals Association puts it, Its like giving somebody an'antibiotic for a major disease, but restricting them to only- - half the needed dose. we allow the So in the name of environmentalism bug-kille- rs bug-kille- If Americans no longer desire to carry the yoke of God given traditions that have preserved free agency in the world, who then will? It better be you in November 1980! self-relian- Ray W. Burnett South Ogden P.S. Do not let the polling medias decide your voting! publicity. Polling at election time is as unjust as pre-triCourt action is necessary to prove or disprove that polling makes prejudicial the election venue favoring some candidates over others. al Letter to the editor: Bob Marshall is my name. I am a vast tract of land in Montanas Rockies. I stretch and yawn through massive mountain and peaks meadows, through pristine timbered forests and ice cold streams. And I am quiet. Elk and moose and grizzly move silently on my padded floor, deer graze casually in my fields, sheep pick their way along uncertain trails, eagles soar and hawks and raven cry. I am the Bob Marshall Wilderness, determined by an act of Congress to be preserved, a now and future voice to all mankind, gentle reminder of time past, legacy to time ahead. And I am a refuge for man: alone, needing to feel the cool winds and solitude, or in crowds, walking, stalking game. By law, I am under the authority of the U.S. Forest Service. It is their duty to protect me. Not too long ago, a company from France applied for a prospecting permit to explore my land for minerals, for oil. Exploration would have meant of thousands dynamite blasts pricking at of space one-side- d. rs 50-7- risk-benef- Dr. Etcyl Blair, Dow Chemicals Vice President and Director of Health and Environmental Sciences, hit the nail is being victimized by an on the head this spring: 2,4,5-too and tax has which many expended agency dollars to admit now that the herbicide is safe when used properly. I think he is unfortunately correct. (Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-basepublic policy research organization), h T man-hou- rs d reach settlement Weber teachers Utah land claim denial Save the wMemess Editor, e, e, destruction of tens of millions of acres of productive land. Pesticide regulation also is an economic and political issue. Economic because as the National Academy of Sciences has reported, if the U.S. was to go cold turkey and discontinue the use of pesticides, farm prices would increase by 5 percent. This would happen because crop production would fall sharply, an estimated 30 percent in the first year. . Political because EPA pesticide regulatory policy seems more of a vendetta against man-mad- e chemicals, it than it is a rational assessment. Jor example, the government continues its war on Dow Chemicals 2,4,5-a gheonxy herbicice used in forest management. The weed killer has been accused of every heinous crime imaginable. Yet, not a single shred of documented scientific proof has been produced. To the contrary, studies in Great Britain, Australia, and at U.S. universities show the product to be safe. Even one of the governments top pesticide policymakers, Hurlon Ray, said after his recent retirement from the EPA, where he won the agencys top award, that although the product is very dangerous (as all pesticides are), the scientific evidence simply does not justify the ban. Yet, the EPA has not relented, and the ban remains. increase for each teacher in voted leeway is passed this the district and that this year in the Weber County settlement in dollars was School District and adequate my very existence, leaving of with other legislative funding comprarable me gasping: essence gone, in the state and education occurs, the Weber settlements for national government A U.S. Supreme Court debased by technology. Tuesday, June 3. The neighboring districts. The County School District will monuments, and But I have friends, friends ruling that the federal ' parks, In also face additional budget cuts was teachers association had settlement filed Utah forests. 1965, government doesnt have to who rallied and sent letters to the same the ratified on per- which would simply mean a previously equitable acres, all to the Forest Service, give the state of Utah claim in157,000 with at disaster in the entire a other as increases Uintah located meeting agreement county, centage mineral-riclands in expleading, yelling, screaming their faculty representin the state and educational program of the has districts since oil where shale for school' lands, letters asking them to deny change Besides school district. atives. Wasatch Front. last week, Jeen bid on for development the prospecting permit. And announced the oil Ron salary increasing spokesman companies. Stephens, by In the the permit was denied. highlights the need for the announcing schedule comparable to In 1974, the state filed of the District Negotiating association Rebellions But the oil hungry public Sagebrush agreement, action in federal district Team, indicated that the other agreements reached Noel Zabriskie president yells and screams, too. Many success, according to a Utah to to court assert its claim agreement was within the this year, Dr. Puffer noted farm leader. indicated that the teachers more permits will be applied court upheld that the land; budget tentatively approved that other items approved association was accepting for; oil companies know that included the insurance O. Nishiguchi, the Board of Education Frank title claim in 1976. In the Utahs by agreement with the and did not by law they can lease for teachers which tax for of the court Utah a Farm package a federal 1978, provide appeals president The wilderness land until 1984. stipulation: was increased to meet inand said again affirmed Utahs right following Puffer Bureau increase. Dr., Federation, 1981 negotiating team for the Once they lease my land the Mr. Stephens complimented that state ownership of to the land. flationary costs, the hourly association is to negotiate winds of solitude will be today for teachers for summer rate teams for the federal land would not only the Last 19, negotiating Monday, May of the restoration shattered by the drone and school and workshop acout to an work the of U.S. Supreme Court said the development speed up smell of oil wells. playground supervision in being willing and certain other tivities within was resources on the land in federal government could the that Tom Coston reads letters. elementary schools at agreement it would also give give the state less valuable concerning the dollars available provisions question; 1979-8levels of least to the He is the Regional Forester the state the full income it required subpayment to teachers for if it wished. land although If hours. this and he and denied the from such lands instead of mileage when they are If the Supreme Court personnel cannot be agreed to, no stantial cuts in certain areas prospecting permit. It is not of bonus face of a the the the holds in decision required to transport only portion budget. Dr. Puffer up settlement will be reached. easy for Mr. Coston. Oil and mineral lease dollars.' of Utahs to his voiced concern reverse attempt regarding students, deliver or pick up We appreciate the boards ., companies are powerful In the short run, this will it, the loss to Utahs " items in the budget,'' that equipment or supplies. to at look demand cost willingness many . to enough Utahns perhaps $5 to $7. r, educational fund will be pr. Puffer indicated that it areas from which funds .necessarily had to cutset-to 'satisfaction.' He needs your be difficult to find would million a year, the farm about $5 million next year the provide salary could be generated to support now more than leader out. more and and hardbonus But in dedicated alone. lease But Patrons tlement. and pointed achieve a salary increase before. Convince him to the for any cannot the costs may income is only starting to expect run, working employees long public near the cost of living. maintain his obvious moral to provide the same occupational group in the be hundreds of millions of build up., teachers to the commitment Dr. dollars. And this loss is Clark Nishiguchi pointed out that Puffer, educational program when nation. He also indicated wilderness land he was U.S. government of the such items as playground that the citzenry would be from of Executive the Director Land Bureau sworn to protect. Write to onto teacher hard to which land Weber Education aides, that land pressed to find any Ogden supervisors, him and tell him you agree hanging not even belong to Utah has laid claim under indicated that textbooks and other items where they investment should Association, with him and support him. them. the negotiating team is vital to the education of the receive more for their dollar separate action in a 1980 I am the Bob Marshall child are extensively cut. than in the public education please with the salary setNishiguchi referred to the state law should not have Wilderness and I am afraid. was granted been held by the federal tlement which would mean Dr. Puffer went on to inprogram in the Weber I am fighting for my life. fact that Utah between $1,530 and $3,000 dicate that, Unless a local the right, in 1896, to choose government all these years. County School District. Please help me. land equivalent to that taken It violated a contract with Tom Coston then and later by the federal the state, he claimed. Regional Forester U.S. Federal Bldg. by U S Supreme Court : . The Weber County School Board of Education ratified the negotiated agreement with teachers at the school board meeting held on h 0 paper is published weekly at Roy, Utah 53P8 1900 W. Mailing address: P.O. Box 207, Roy, Utah 84067. Telephone: or Salt Lake This S. 825-166- 6 359-261- 2. All news and photographs for Wednesday papers must be in the news office by 5 p.m. Monday, pictures may be included without charge either taken in our office or submitted by our readers. ! - Man-bageme- nt J. Howard Stable Owner-Publisher-Edit- Asst. Publisher Ad. Mgr. Editor Sports Editor Staff Staff Staff M. Glen Adams Mrs. Bonnie Stahle Nancy Lynn Krzton Keith Duncan Cindy Shy Pam Zaugg l Trade Bailey ( KJTTC3 Missoula, MT 59801 K3tJ K3TTC3 Cajj R. Max Peterson Chief of Forest Service of Dept, Agriculture 12th St. and Independence Ave. S.W. Washington., D.C. 20250 JUSTKiOm For more information: Friends of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Condon, MT 59826. OSHA reffom maCiBirog By U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch Its been nearly a decade since Congress approved the Williams-Steige- r Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1970. In those 10 years industry has spent over $25 billion on OSHA compliance, and the agency created has spent over $1 billion for operations. There is no convincing evidence yet that the law is effective; there has been no significant impact on worker injury rates. In fact, since 1971, serious injuries to workers are up by 24 percent, and sadly, the severeity of those injuries has increased 33 percent. A comparison to worker safety before OSHA produces a more unpleasant surprise. National Safety Council (NSC) statistics for the period prior to 1971, and the enactment of OSHA, show a steady decline in fatalities and serious injuries. As a matter of fact, NSC statistics show a trend of significant decrease in industrial fatality and serious injury rates from World War II up to 1971. It almost seems as though e OSHA has been and in certain circumstances I am sure it has been. Its time for reform. The Act should not be repealed or gutted, however, as some opponents of OSHA reform have urged. While there is little evidence that the law is effective, there is less evidence that abolishing the law would promote safety. But most observers of the Act agree that something must be done to refocus the efforts and priorities of the agency. In the interest of all concerned parties, channeling OSHAs efforts where they are most needed and where they counter-productiv- onVGDISK Only three things in life are certain: death, taxes and uncertainty. 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We are trying now to expand the redirection effort to all safe employers, and put the provisions in the OSHA law itself rather than the appropriations laws, which must be renewed annually. These concepts are embodied in S. 2153, sponsored by Sen. Schweiker and me, with other OSHA reformers such as Sen. Harrison Williams of New Jersey, the Chairman of the Labor-Huma- n Resources Committee; Sen. Alan Cranston of California, and Sen. Frank Church of Idaho. S. 2153 is a positive step in OSHA reform. The Labor and Human Resources Committee held hearings in April; the bipartisan support shown for the bill then will help to get a vote in the Senate during the 96th Congress. Critics of S. 2153 have wildly exaggerated and misrepresented the bills impact. Unlike many earlier efforts to amend the annual Labor-HEAppropriations bills, S. 2153 is not a blanket exemption based solely on business size, although the bill would certainly relieve many small businesses from routine, but unneeded, safety inspections. The bill does not increase the risk of worker injury, nor does it excuse safety violations during the period of exemption, as some opponents claim. It would not permit business firms to ignore OSHA safety standards and regulations. , A I I I I I I I wmmi popular aerospace Evan Memmott, Dr. course instructor, said the teacher workshop will teach the basic concepts in aerospace education and how they can be applied in the classroom within a variety of subject fields. It is also for any adult who wants to explore the wonders of space and the possibility of space travel. Teachers can use the credit for the workshop towards recertification. Cost is $71 for three hours of college credit, or $45 if it taken on a basis. non-cred- The youth workshop, which runs concurrently with the teachers classes, is specifically designed for scouts and scout leaders. Rather, S. 2153 promotes workplace safety efforts by exempting those business firms that keep and can document outstanding safety performance. S. 2153 te not a cure-a- ll for all of OSHAs problems. MaiwyuU'gay the bill does not go far enough, fast enough to redfess OSHAs dismal record. They are not totally wrong. But it is a workable compromise, and a good start toward permanent change. S. 2153 carefully bridges the gap between those Congressmen who desire OSHAs extinction and those who think business as usual at OSHA is requisite. Passing S. 2153 would reduce Congressional pressure for OSHA reform by appropriations riders. It would relieve safe business firms from needless routine inspections. It would improve OSHAs ability to protect workers and would soften the adversarial posture and policies of an agency that has become synonymous with costly, ineffective bureaucracy. The very composition of the coalition of senators I have listed confirms the agencys failings and the need for changes. It signals a good opportunity for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee to deal with this regulatory tyrant, to clip its wings. Its time to curb OSHAs abusive powers. Its time to give workers an agency that really protects them and that will be effective in reducing accident rates and severity. i workshop for teachers and youth will be held June 16 through 20 at Weber State College. It is under the direction of the WSC Division of Continuing Education and will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. all five days. broad-spectru- The Ben Lomond BBBCBn! 5388 SOUTH stfndls. Aerospace workshop scheduled Scouts will have the opto fill portunity requirements for three merit badgea: aviation, space exploration, and weather. Those who wish to get the weather merit badge must have kept a weather chart for 30 days prior to June 16, however. The scout uniform is in order during the entire workshop. Cost for the youth classes is $19.50. , To register or for more information, call the WSC Division of Continuing Education at 626-660- |
